Presidential powers don't extend to pop culture. Ted Widmer, Widmer is the author, most recently, of "Ark of the Liberties: America and the World." He was a speechwriter for President Clinton.
Writers, the future is still yours Rebecca Solnit, Solnit is the author of many books, including "A Field Guide to Getting Lost," "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West" and "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities."
How history outfoxed fiction Jane Smiley, Smiley's latest novel, "Ten Days in the Hills," was recently published in paperback.